Woo-Ping Ge, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorGe LabResearch Interests: The goal of our lab is to understand the mechanisms underlying the interactions between the brain vasculature and the nervous system. Combining electrophysiology and in vivo imaging with genetic methods, our lab studies: (1) how a brain builds the gliovascular and neurovascular network during development; (2) how this network is damaged during strokes; and (3) how the network is repaired after strokes. Ultimately, this focus might lead to the development of novel therapeutic targets for treating stroke, which affects about 700,000 Americans each year.

Said Kourrich, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorKourrich LabResearch Interests: Experience-induced synaptic and intrinsic plasticity with a focus on exposure to drugs of abuse; Interaction between intrinsic and synaptic excitability in the shaping of global neuronal activity; Regulation of neuronal excitability by the endoplasmic chaperone protein sigma-1 receptor (Sig-1R)

Adrian Rothenfluh, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests: Drug-induced behaviors in Drosophila to learn more about the genes, signaling pathways, and brain circuits mediating these behaviors, with the goal of gaining insights into vertebrate addiction

Kevin Williams, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorWilliams LabResearch Interests: Understanding at a cellular level the neural of control energy balance as well as glucose metabolism, and elucidating how these events may participate in human disease.

Janine Prange-Kiel, Ph.D.Research Interests: Locally produced estradiol has been demonstrated to be important for the regulation of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. However, very little is known about the factors that regulate the expression of aromatase, the enzyme that converts testosterone into estradiol, in the brain. Our lab uses cell culture techniques and molecular approaches to learn more about the regulation of aromatase expression in the hippocampus of rats and mice.